TIME

Transparent Drawing cannot exist without time.

CUBIST TIME

Cubism offered the first new way to show time and space on a two dimensional surface since Alberti.  Cubism, in it’s anti representational formula, shows opaque forms and shapes from multiple viewpoints.

Cubism assumes that either the object has rotated / moved or the viewer has moved their position wile looking in the same direction.   Without this implied movement, Cubism cannot exist.  That is to say, Alberti’s picture plane temporal understanding is of one instant.

Because the Cubists were not concerned with rationalized and complete forms, they could pull and tug on their shapes and forms with abandon.  The Cubist time conception might best be described as fragmented, or non coherent.

TRANSPARENT DRAWING TIME

In the same manner, Transparent Drawing’s formula is to show opaque objects and forms as complete shapes, simultaneously.  Because we draw what we can’t see, the inclusion of time is mandatory.  For example, as we saw a couple of pages ago, we use minutes to take photos of buildings or objects from different viewpoints.  This allows us to understand the complete volume.  When we know the complete opaque form (DRAW WHAT YOU KNOW), we can then draw it, transparently.

I guess the key distinction here is opacity.  If we were drawing transparent forms and shapes, we would naturally be drawing transparently, just like normal.  Yet all the forms and enclosures that I draw, at least, have opaque surfaces.

Yet, of course, in Transparent Drawing, we are relying on more or less conventional projection methods.  We have immediate use for the one point, two point, axonometric, even the Choisey One Point.

The Transparent Drawing time conception is therefore coherent.

COMPARISON

So this is where we are.  On one hand we have the Cubists painting opaquely to show objects from more than one viewpoint using non-coherent projection.  On the other hand, we have Transparent Drawing which shows complete opaque objects using typical projection formula, transparently.

Again, the key here is time.  Transparent Drawing is useful because of it’s ability to incorporate time coherently.  We utilize tried and true projection techniques to incorporate time.  Whereas the Cubist method is of no use;  it does neither the designer nor the client any good to look at a fractured Cubist projection because the form does not complete itself.